The article makes a pretty good point that while any of those things are within
the realm of the possible, all of them combined are pretty ridiculous. People
are spooked by stuxnet and recent NSA disclosures, but NSA isn't full of magic
wizards. The realm of the possible is greater than we know, but it's not
infinite.

I think that if this were an NSA initiative, Asshole would have leaked it
by now. It's becoming clear that there isn't a hell of a lot that he didn't
have access to, and this has supposedly been going on for years, long enough
that something should have been briefed to someone. The desire to gloat about
one's capabilities in PowerPoint seems to be a universal corporate phenomenon,
and in an era of tightening budgets all over, I can't see not trumpeting something
like this to higher echelons.

The article makes a pretty good point that while any of those things are within the realm of the possible, all of them combined are pretty ridiculous. People are spooked by stuxnet and recent NSA disclosures, but NSA isn't full of magic wizards. The realm of the possible is greater than we know, but it's not infinite.

I think that if this were an NSA initiative, Asshole would have leaked it by now. It's becoming clear that there isn't a hell of a lot that he didn't have access to, and this has supposedly been going on for years, long enough that something should have been briefed to someone. The desire to gloat about one's capabilities in PowerPoint seems to be a universal corporate phenomenon, and in an era of tightening budgets all over, I can't see not trumpeting something like this to higher echelons.

you didn't read the spiegel article i've posted?

they have tiny chips which if you iluminate a room with radar waves modulate their data on. (which is exactly what those wave pics are about in your article)

these data pcbs are about the size of the plug from the USB-Cable, batery usage is less a concern then battery self discharging.

they have those to put inside monitor cables (red signal...) so they live inside the shield stone.

Viruses overwriting motheboard or hdd bioses are also readily available able to understand vfat, ntfs and ext3.

From a psychological point of view, this badbios denial is funny. All these years the tin foil hatters claimed "they" are watching us all, everywhere. Now Snowden actually leaked that they do and how they do it and yet the next tinfoil hatter is mocked about because he has this ridiculous claim about a malware doing all kind of crazy stuff, which noone believes any of "them" could actually be making. Because it is too complicated, resource intensive, hard to achieve or whatever.

Now I do understand perfectly well that it is a logical fallacy to assume badbois is true because the total surveillance seems to be true. But then again, I despise skeptics more than complete nutters. ;)

Now I do understand perfectly well that it is a logical fallacy to assume badbois is true because the total surveillance seems to be true. But then again, I despise skeptics more than complete nutters. ;)

Future take on dealing with a nutter. Just take him at face value and investigate all his hardware at a microscopic level ala: